Friedrich Schelling, a philosopher lecturing in Germany's famed Jena University and a leading proponent of the new Romantic movement, has fallen for his friend's wife. As Europe's cities fall to Napoleon's army, and a tragic death shatters Jena, Schelling battles his colleagues for Europe's intellectual future while wondering if he has lost his love before he has even won her.

Margaret Lucas escapes the English Civil War by travelling to France in Queen Henrietta's entourage. There her heart is captured by an exiled royalist soldier, William Cavendish. Soon married, as Margaret Cavendish she now has the freedom to embrace her other great passions: women's equality, the new sciences, poetry, philosophy, high couture, and completing her feminist science fiction novel.

Rene Descartes is nearing the end of his life. He has escaped his French detractors by accepting the position of philosopher-in-residence with Sweden's remarkable, foul-mouthed Queen Christina. But she reminds him of his long-deceased daughter, and he is all too aware sceptical courtiers are plotting for him to join her.

Three true-life tales from an era when compelling personalities introduced ideas now integral to the modern world, each written with polished verve, wry humour, and lit within by incandescent longing.

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Hugh Major studied English and Philosophy at Auckland University and has taught these subjects at secondary schools, as well as English and Drama in both Scotland and Japan. In his writing, Hugh explores new thinking in the fields of consciousness, science, spirituality and culture. Five times he has been a finalist in New Zealand's premiere Ashton Wylie Book Awards for writing in the mind, body, spirit genre. His published books include Notes on the Mysterium Tremendum (2010), From Monkey to Moth (2015), and The Lantern in the Skull (2019). All three were finalists in the Ashton Wylie Book Awards, with the third also a finalist in the 2020 International Independent Book Awards. This is his first published work of fiction.

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